New BMI calculator proposed (BBC)

posted: 1/29/2013 at 10:56 AM

saw this and thought others may like to use it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21229387

pr100

posted: 1/29/2013 at 10:59 AM

Yeah - I had seen that, but I'm not sure it's helpful if we have two different BMI measures... just confuses everyone. Better for people to understand the limitations of BMI.

But mine is significantly lower with the new calculation Smile

jeffdonahue

posted: 1/29/2013 at 11:21 AM

Mine didnt change much.

wolfeliminator

posted: 1/29/2013 at 11:29 AM

i certainly prefer the new one because it puts me in the middle of the healthy range, as opposed to right on the line with "overweight" :-)

Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 1/29/2013 at 11:42 AM

I'm short so mine went up.

I liked the original version way way way way back that never gained any ground because it was a complicated formula using weight, hip circumference and height for women and I think waist and height for men. did a better job of figuring out if you were muscular or flabby

I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets

"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7

rgilbert

posted: 1/29/2013 at 11:47 AM

Looks like I went from roughly the middle of normal to roughly the middle of normal (though slightly lower).

"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem."
Emil Zatopek

fitfatboy

More cowbell!

posted: 1/29/2013 at 11:50 AM

Yeah, mine didn't change much. My best running weight with my frame is between 175-180#, and that still puts me more than safely in the overweight range.

I guess my moniker will have to stick around through a couple more iterations of this formula Cool

2013 Goals-as of Memorial Day

Running: 1600 miles total, 292.4 down-1307.6 to go.

Cycling: 2000 miles total, 596 down-1404 to go. Riding with my wife on her 1st century

Swimming: 80K total, 17.5 down-62.5 to go.

HAVING FUN!!!

zoom-zoom

Fanatic #3965

posted: 1/29/2013 at 12:09 PM

Old: 24.55 - healthy

New: 25.03 - overweight

And I'm currently rocking a size 6-8.

Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

xhristopher

posted: 1/29/2013 at 12:12 PM

I'm still overweight. I should start running or something.

BoilerTom90

posted: 1/29/2013 at 12:18 PM

Quote from xhristopher on 1/29/2013 at 12:12 PM:

I'm still overweight. I should start running or something.

How about growing a few inches?

pr100

posted: 1/29/2013 at 12:20 PM

Quote from BoilerTom90 on 1/29/2013 at 12:18 PM:

How about growing a few inches?

In which direction? Some are easier than others....

Trent

posted: 1/29/2013 at 12:22 PM

I don't get it.

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

ultracassie

posted: 1/29/2013 at 12:26 PM

"The change means that some tall people previously deemed "overweight" are "normal" under the new proposal, and some short people who were "normal" are now "overweight"."

Pays to be tall now, I guess.

Live the Adventure. Enjoy the Journey. Be Kind. Have Faith!

LedLincoln

Food

posted: 1/29/2013 at 12:31 PM

Old: 20.45

New: 19.52, low end of normal. I should drop a bit of height.

testing testing

Wing

posted: 1/29/2013 at 12:38 PM

Your new BMI: 17.84

Your old BMI: 18.16

I'm never normal, even less so now...

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'13 Goals: